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Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes is an account of Paolo Diego Bubbio's twenty-year intellectual journey through the twists and turns of Girard's mimetic theory. The author analyzes philosophy and religion as "enemy sisters" engaged in an endless competitive stru...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bubbio, Paolo Diego, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2018]
Series:Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
Subjects:
Girard, René, > 1923-2015.
Girard, René, > 1923-2015
Mimesis.
Mimesis
Philosophy and religion.
Sacrifice.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Philosophy and religion
Sacrifice
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intellectual sacrifice
  • Intellectual expulsion
  • Historical forms of mystification
  • The path of demystification
  • Conclusion
  • A brief letter from René Girard
  • Other mimetic paradoxes
  • Interlude: corrections and paradoxes
  • Girard's ontological argument for the existence of God
  • Mimetic theory's post-Kantian legacy
  • Mimetic theory and hermeneutic Communism
  • The self in crisis
  • Hermeneutic mimetic theory.

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